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10 février 2016

Open Thread Wednesday: Conducting Observations in Online Classes

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . The evidence against the effectiveness of student evaluations as a way to measure instructional success or gather feedback for redesigning courses is mounting. However, while many institutions have established peer or faculty center observation programs for getting more direct feedback on teaching, online courses can feel more isolated. Read more...
10 février 2016

Digital Scholarship with Scalar 2

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Creating a work of digital scholarship can be daunting. Last year I published a piece called “Alice in Dataland 2.0″ (Kairos 20.1) that represented an incredible labor of mapping, organizing, and combining platforms from Twine to Construct 2 to hand-coded HTML5 and JavaScript into a fairly massive hypertext. Read more...
10 février 2016

Scaling Up Courses

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . With the new semester upon us, many people are getting ready to try out new course preps or revisit familiar classes. The too-brief break of the holiday season doesn’t provide much time for preparation, so I find the last days before the semester begins can be a frantic time for revision and planning. Read more...
10 février 2016

Making Comics as Scholarship

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . For the last few years, I’ve been collaborating with Roger Whitson on editing Comics as Scholarship, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. Read more...
10 février 2016

Appel à communications - Congrès de Jérusalem (3-8 mai 2017)

Nous vous rappelons que le 48e Congrès de notre Société se tiendra au Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem, du 3 au 8 mai 2017 sur le thème suivant : « Les vivants et les morts dans les sociétés médiévales ». Vous en trouverez l’argumentaire scientifique ci-joint.
Les propositions de communications doivent être adressées au secrétariat de la SHMESP avant le 15 avril 2016, délai de rigueur, exclusivement par courrier électronique. Elles doivent être accompagnées d’un résumé d’une page, à défaut duquel il ne sera pas possible de les prendre en compte. Le comité scientifique fera connaître fin juin les contributions retenues. Les sociétaires intéressés sont invités à prendre attentivement connaissance des grandes orientations fixées par le comité scientifique.
Les directeurs de recherche sont invités à informer au plus vite les doctorants susceptibles d’être intéressés par une participation à ce congrès. Ceux-ci se manifesteront également auprès du secrétariat de la SHMESP avant le 15 avril 2016, exclusivement par courrier électronique, en joignant un résumé d’une page. Les candidats retenus pourront bénéficier d’une bourse. Voir l'article...

10 février 2016

Tricia

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . So many words for dying, deceasing, expiring, succumbing, giving up the ghost, meeting one’s end, passing away, being taken from us, meeting one’s maker, going to a better place, breathing one’s last. More...

10 février 2016

The Awful Chinese Writing System

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . Is the Chinese writing system a sufficient reason on its own to guarantee that Mandarin will not become a global language like English? That’s what someone asked me after I discussed the prima facie unsuitability of English to serve as a world communication medium. More...

10 février 2016

Grown-Ups Deserve Better

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . Square Peg, part of the Random House group, is a publisher located at 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. Kyle Books is another publisher, headquartered at 192-198 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. The two sets of staff could walk along Vauxhall Bridge Road to have lunch together and discuss upcoming titles. More...

10 février 2016

They Will Never Forget You …

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . Glenn Frey died in New York on January 18. Viewed from Britain, his death was completely overshadowed by another death in New York eight days earlier, that of David Bowie. Everyone, it suddenly seemed, had been in love with Bowie. More...

10 février 2016

The Quiet Certainty of Antedating

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . Recently I mentioned the celebratedly spurious Holmesian nonquotation, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” I pointed out that The Yale Book of Quotations proposes as the earliest known source The New York Times issue of Tuesday, April 30, 1911. More...

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